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Illusion
Neda Fatima
ROMANCE
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Submitted to Contest #1 in response to the prompt: ' Write a story where your character rekindles their friendship with a schoolmate.'

Tasmay khanna was a brilliant boy and handsome as well while Akshita mishra was a beautiful and charming girl ,they both were toppers of their schools . They both were in the same school in varanasi Bal bhartiya english school and in the same section of class xi of science stream of their school. They both got attracted to each other slowly because of their mutual admiration of each other and they both being very good looking as well. Gradually they became good friends and slowly their friendship grew stronger and they fell in love with each other deeply. Their love story news spread in the entire school gradually and soon they were tagged as girlfriend and boyfriend. Both of their free time in recess , or after school they spend with each other. They used to talk endlessly for hours , feel each other's presence , their romance was equally giving both of them happiness and joy and Akshita was going through a phase of true love in her life which she is never going to forget in her life . Tasmay was equally involved and was in love but he was a male so he was also focussed to make a career for himself as well . So he studied hard as well. Although they have not disclosed it to their family about their relationship but obviously at that time they were not thinking of the future aspect of it or marriage of their's but they were solely living happily in the present moment enjoying their romance ,touch of each other, the presence of each other , their heart pouring conversations, they were truly each other's soulmate and everyone including themselves knew it . But things doesn’t always turn positive and happy , sometimes with time , a lot of things changes including people and their relationships and that is exactly what happens for Akshita and Tasmay also. After completing their 12th they both went their separate ways .Tasmay moved to IIT Delhi as he was being so brilliant student , he has cleared IIT entrance in his first attempt along with 12th , while Akshita stayed in her hometown Varanasi and completed her graduation from bhu. Soon after sometime they lost connection with each other and many problems arised between them in many years . Slowly their relationship started getting sour . Sometimes one problem arises sometimes some other like they lost each other's contact numbers , insufficient time , lack of conversation, responses were not frequent and then the fights and quarrels and arguments increased and their relationship finally ended on a bad note. They could not keep up with a long distance relationship and so it ended. Slowly over the years they both accepted this truth that it has ended. Tasmay was having no major effect of it as he was a bit of practical kind of guy and he moved on in his life, and he after some time got involved with another girl of his college but Akshita couldn’t forget Tasmay even for a second. She believed that Tasmay still loved her and will always love her and he is not talking to her because of parental pressure . She couldn’t erase her memories of the time they both had spent together with each other. Her days and nights went into daily checking his Facebook account and checking and clicking on and saving Tasmay’s images from the Internet. also she kept sending messages to him on his social media account which he never replied. Slowly many years passed . One day through a common friend Akshita got the new contact number of Tasmay and she was extremely happy to find out that she both were still unmarried and she hopes and knows that he must be still in love with her but as soon as she got the number of Tasmay, her common friend told Akshita that Tasmay has called him and was getting angry on him that why he gave Tasmay’s number to Akshita . After hearing this Akshita felt like the floor below her feet has slipped away, she started shivering and extreme sense of painful feelings arose in her heart. Now there were two options was there for her. One was to call Tasmay and confront him and second was to delete his number and forget him forever . Akshita chose the second option because her self- respect was more important to her than her love but the condition was that she couldn’t forget Tasmay ever even after hearing all this and knowing that he is not in love with her and has completely forgotten her. So , Akshita deleted his number from her phone but decided to live in his memories forever, because even if it was an illusion she loves to live in it because it makes her happy and there was no choice left for her as well. While Akshita came to know through Facebook that Tasmay has got married also and he is well-settled in life as well Akshita choosed to live in a life where she cannot but love Tasmay in her hearts and mind. Soon, Akshita also got married through an arranged married by her parents and Akshita throughout her whole life lived in a marriage where there was no love but necessity to get married for everyone else’s sake . This marriage of Akshita gave her everything in life but inside her heart somewhere there was an illusion maybe Tasmay still loves me and this illusion was enough for her to survive internally prisoned in his memories forever and ever until she was alive.


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